Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Breaking Barriers in Heart Care-Chelation Therapy

Breaking
Barriers in Heart Care

Everyone knows that smoking is
bad for health. It can cause heart disease, peripheral arterial disease (PAD),
cancer, Alzheimer’s and a whole host of other problems. For years,
scientists assumed that the damage was done either by the smoke or the nicotine.
A new study on a group of smokers found something very surprising. The
researchers discovered high levels of lead and cadmium in blood of those with
artery damage. Those with the highest blood levels of these metals were three
times more likely to develop PAD.The scientists concluded
that not the smoke, but the heavy metals in cigarette smoke damage the lining
of arteries, leading to more pronounced disease.

These metals don’t have to be very high to
cause problems and the arterial disease can be was associated with lead
concentrations only 13% higher than those without PAD. The toxins in cigarette
smoke affect even non smokers and as the heavy metals are everywhere they are easily
absorbed from the environment and many edibles. A little lead enter our body
every time we sip coffee from a ceramic mug or smudges the fingers with lead
containing ink when reading the daily newspaper. Even the computer monitor and
television set contain lead and many candles contain lead in their wicks that raise
the concentration of lead in the air when they burn.

The good news is that toxic heavy metals can
be removed with a process known as chelation therapy. Medical practitioners
have treated atherosclerotic disease that causes heart attack with chelation
therapy for over 50 years. Till now lack of strong evidence relegated chelation
therapy to complementary medicine practitioners, who reported good results.
Over time evidence linking metals with cardiovascular disease and mortality
gradually accumulated, suggesting a possible role for chelation therapy. Based
on this concept the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) was conducted. In
the study intravenous EDTA based chelation with multivitamins and
multi-minerals was given. Total 1708 patients aged 50 years or above, who had
already had a heart attack were studied. The treatment proved to be safe and
reduced overall cardiovascular events by 18%. The benefit in patients with
diabetes mellitus was even better with a 41% reduction in need for treatment.

Dr Sibia, Director of
Sibia Medical Centre, Ludhiana introduced this service in India in the early 1990’s
and hence is fondly referred to as Father of Chelation Therapy in India. He said
“The study validates what we are doing. Worldwide millions of patients with
heart disease and poor circulation have chosen this treatment. We have
personally seen benefit from chelation so we recommend it to our patients who
want an alternative to surgery or stents. Chelation is safe and we have done
over 2300 chelations in the year 2013 and most of our patients are satisfied.
As we provide ACAM (USA) protocol and international treatments at Indian cost
popularity of our centre among overseas patients is increasing and patients
from over 30 countries have availed various treatments at Sibia Medical Centre.
Chelation Therapy can be life saving for patients who are unfit for surgery,
where bypass or stent has failed and those who want to avoid surgery. An
educational website www.chelation.in provides more details of this treatment.”

The Trial to Assess Chelation
Therapy (TACT) conducted to verify the effects of Chelation Therapy proved it
to be safe and reduced overall cardiovascular events by 18%. Benefit diabetes
mellitus was even better with a 41% reduction in need for treatment.

Dr Sibia recommends
Chelation Therapy for patients unfit for surgery, with failed bypass or stent
and those who want to avoid surgery or stents.

Dr.S.S.Sibia, MD in
Internal Medicine is Director and Senior Consultant at Sibia Medical Centre,
India. He maintains an educational website www.chelation.in and can be
contacted at Mb: +91-9814034818 or Email: drsibia@sssibia.com.